As well as being a small business owner, a nurse and mother, Ghent has been extremely active in a number of volunteer organizations in her community. She served as president of the Ontario division of the Canadian Cancer Society and chair of the Ontario Campaign for Action on Tobacco.

A respected scholar, teacher, researcher, and author, Chan is known throughout the McMaster community as McMaster's champion in international spheres. He has published extensively on cultural diversity in international business.

Chiarelli is most widely known as the effervescent character behind two one-man shows about growing up in a Sicilian neighborhood in Hamilton: “Cu'Fu” and “Mangiacake.” By day, he is a senior analyst for the Ontario Ministry of Health.

Coward is passionately committed to research on religion that relates to a broad range of social and cultural questions and communities. He continues to be involved in the community with speaking engagements for various church, school and community groups.

Dickson returned to McMaster to instruct the first undergraduate medical class. The second year, he returned as a student. He is currently a family physician in Hamilton, a leader in the Hamilton medical community, a community volunteer, and a published poet.

Since receiving her PhD, Allan has made her mark at McMaster as a teacher, administrator and scholar of international reputation. She has conducted groundbreaking research on the role of learning in perception and cognition.

MacGregor is currently a chemical engineering professor at McMaster but has made significant developments in process-automation and multivariate statistics. His MVS software enables large manufacturing companies to monitor processes,eliminate redundancies and save millions of dollars.

Oke is recognized as the foremost authority on urban climates, especially for his work on the energy and water balance of cities, urban roughness, evaporation and heat storage. He is currently a professor of geography at the University of British Columbia.

A physics professor at the University of Guelph, Nicol has won numerous high-profile research awards including five NSERC grants, the Polanyi Prize for Physics, and the Premier's Research Excellence award.

Pulford played professional hockey for the Toronto Maple Leafs for 14 years and was part of four Stanley Cups. He is currently the senior vice-president of the Chicago Blackhawks.

Van Duzer is a judge, lawyer and long-time volunteer with the McMaster Alumni Association. After several years as a family court lawyer and judge, he spearheaded a move to and became a founding judge on the Unified Family Court of Hamilton-Wentworth.